Senior Activity Leader

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**What's on Offer**:
**Location**: Manchester
**Salary**: Between £505 per week
**Contract Type**: Fixed Term Summer Contract (Available During June 2025 - August 2025)
**Hours**: 42 hours per week

**Team Member Benefits**:
**Accommodation**: Free (residential roles only)

**Meals**: 3 meals per day, catering to dietary and religious requirements
**Career Development**: Comprehensive paid training & career development
**Culture**: Friendly & supportive multicultural working environment
**Wellbeing**: Dedicated Mental Health Champions
**Rewards**: Team Members Recognition Awards

**Annual Leave**:Annual leave accrual 12.07% to be paid at end of fixed term contract

**Bonus for Eligible Returners**: £20 per week

**Overview**:
The purpose of a Senior Activity Leader (SAL) is to oversee and manage the planning, organisation, and execution of various activities and programs, primarily designed for BSC Young Learners (BSC YL). This role plays a critical part in creating a positive and enriching experience for participants, as well as team members. You will be a main contact for Activity Leaders on the ground. Leading them from the front and exemplifying the high standards of a great leader. You will take charge on the airport arrivals day being the main communication link between on the ground and the operations team.

The main duties and responsibilities are listed below

**Duties**:
**Activities**
- To coordinate and manage a team of activity leaders, ensuring that activities and programs are well-structured, engaging, and aligned with the organization's goals and objectives.
- Delegate necessary tasks to AWLs to ensure everyone’s participation towards quality delivery of the programme.
- Motivate and guide activity leaders during activity sessions.
- Support the Activities Manager to develop materials for Social Programme.
- Manage time appropriately by arriving early to set up activity and gather resources.
- Promote and update the activity programme using posters, noticeboards, sign-up sheets and in communicating with the students.
- Complete dynamic risk assessments whilst on activities and take any necessary action.
- Complete a register for the activity and hand into the activity manager.
- Ensure all facility bookings have been confirmed for the delivery of the social programme.
- Encourage all students to participate in all activities.
- Ask the Activities Manager about any aspect of delivery that you are not sure about.
- Report all incidents on activities, excursions or elsewhere, using the incident report form process.
- Attend and participate in all activity team meetings and excursion briefings.
- Support the Activities Manager to create Activity Packs.
- Consult the Risk Assessments before each activity.
- Familiarise yourself the Operations Handbook.
- Coordinate with team members leaving for airport duty.

**Excursions**
- Accompany and fully supervise students in your care.
- Coordinate AWLs tasks and communicate everyone’s responsibility in the excursion brief, such as collecting packed lunches, picking up registers, collecting group.
- Familiarize yourself with excursion material and the excursion itinerary (these will be provided to you in the pre-excursion briefings the evening before the excursion).
- Attend all pre-excursion briefings.
- Ensure you have any required tickets for attraction bookings.
- If you are responsible for the packed lunches, arrive at breakfast early to eat and collect the trolley.
- Communicate the weather forecast to the group before leaving so they are prepared.
- Ensure students are wearing their lanyards containing their school ID, emergency contact information and wristbands.
- Ensure students are wearing appropriate clothing for the weather. For example, a jacket for rain, etc.
- Greet the coach drivers, introduce yourself and confirm drop off locations.
- Complete a student register before leaving on the bus.
- Carry a first aid kit on the excursion.
- Build rapport, agree drop off and pick up location and time, and exchange phone numbers with the coach driver.
- Complete regular head counts and dynamic risk assessments.
- Support the Activities Manager to create Excursion Packs.
- Consult the Risk Assessment before every excursion.
- Remain alert to ensure the students stay safe.
- Communicate updates regularly with the Activity Manager.

**Pastoral Care**
- Provide welfare cover as and when required.
- Be allocated a specific student group for the week (where necessary.)
- Check on students that are having a difficult time becoming comfortable.
- Communicate to all members of the team any particular student welfare related information they need to be aware of.
- Actively supervise mealtimes on a rota basis.
- Complete wake up/night duty on a rota basis.
- Help with laundry duty as and when required.
- Assist in keeping the school clean and organised.
- Collaborate with team members to ensure safety and security within accommodation